Wednesday, 17 November 2010

The lantern child decided to change jobs he wanted to do something else holding the lantern made his arms hurt. So he donned his cape and pulled on his supergnome suit and became minus. Currently he is waiting for his fellow gnomes to join him but they should be with him soon!

The pattern

Very easy to knit all you need is some left over DK weight in 3 colours (suit (dark blue, supergnome belt light blue and skintone) a wine cork (1 makes 2 dolls).

To seam the doll together start at the top of the head with a mattress stich when you get to the colour change weave the yarn trough the last row of skintone stitches stuff and pull tight to create the head.
Change the yarn to the body colour and finish seaming the doll. stuff the part made of stocking stitch and finish of the body with half a cork. I find they stand much better than when you knit and stuff the entire body.

Hat

cast on 20 knit 5 rows in stockingstitch
* k1 k2tog k to last 3 stitches k2tog k1
purl *
Repeat these two rows until 3 stitches remain break yarn leaving a long tail seam the hat up and use the tail to secure it to the head

Very easy to knit all you need is some left over DK weight in 3 colours (coat body and skintone) a wine cork (1 makes 2 dolls) a little stick (I used a kebabskewer) and some bit of paper to make the lantern.

To seam the doll together start at the top of the head with a mattress stich when you get to the colour change weave the yarn trough the last row of skintone stitches stuff and pull tight to create the head.
Change the yarn to the body colour and finish seaming the doll. stuff the part made of stocking stitch and finish of the body with half a cork. I find they stand much better than when you knit and stuff the entire body.
Cape

cast on 22 stitches
Knit 10 rows in stocking stitch
K1 k2tog to the end
p1 pfab to end
knit 8 or 9 rows in stocking stitch just make sure it reaches over the head.
Bind of leaving enough tail to sew the hood together.

The part where you decreased one row and immediatly increased the next row goes around the neck area of the doll attach it to the neck with a few stitches.

Lantern

I used a 50p coin for the shape cut the little corners out with a craftknife and stuck coloured tissue paper to the back. You then need a thing strip of paper (mine was just under 1cm) fold it into 6 short pieces to fit your shape cut into the fold slightly both sides so the cuts overlap slightly and your strip can be folded into the right shape put a but of glue on and stick the whole thing together. don't do this bit with kids running around since you have to hold it till its dry :).
Make 2 tiny holes either side to pull a bit of string trough and glue it to the end of your stick.

Thursday, 11 November 2010

Today is one of those days I get a little homesick for Netherland.Martinmas is allways a bog celebration with schools and neighourhoodclubs joining together to celebrate. I went hunting on youtube and found a nice little video of the celebrations. I have to say things have changed a bit since I was little, the fire got smaller (health & safety I guess) and the sound got bigger (hello soundsystem!) but all in all the idea is the same. This video was taken in swalmen 20 minutes of so from where I used to live.

Incase you are not familiar with the story of St Martin WIKI has a nice entry.

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